On Tue, Apr 30, 2013 at 01:28:20PM +0100, Arthur Reutenauer wrote: > > thinking of it: one reason why a general purpose word processor used > > by people with no idea about things like ligatures, is that > > ligatures are language dependent > > I don't think that's necessary relevant: the only example I can think > of language-dependent ligatures is fi and ffi for Turkish and other > languages that use the dotless i (ı, U+0131), because removing the dot > on the i would be confusing in that case; but that's really all. All > other ligatures depend on the font.
The Germans do not like ligatures across compound words, and that is much harder to do in an automated way (not in fonts themselves at least). Regards, Khaled ___________________________________________________________________________________ If your question is of interest to others as well, please add an entry to the Wiki! maillist : ntg-context@ntg.nl / http://www.ntg.nl/mailman/listinfo/ntg-context webpage : http://www.pragma-ade.nl / http://tex.aanhet.net archive : http://foundry.supelec.fr/projects/contextrev/ wiki : http://contextgarden.net ___________________________________________________________________________________
